Author: BEHN, MRS. APHRA
Title: The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn. With Life and Memoirs
Description: London, John Pearson. 1871, 1st. Hard, 12mo. Complete 6 volume set. First edition thus. Facsimilie of the 1724 (3rd Edition of the Plays) and 1735 (8th Edition of the Novels). Bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards and endpapers, tope edge gilting. Published London: John Pearson, 1871. 12 mo. Purple leather with purple paper covered boards, purple marbled endpapers. Vols I - IV contain Plays, vols V - VI contain Histories and Novels. Illustrated with 6 reproductions of the original copperplate engravings. Some wear along the front board edges, sunning to the spines, mild age toning to the paper. amusing book plate of journalist Robert Burns Peattie (husband of journalist, writer and activist Elia W. Peattie) in each volume ("Robert Burns Peattie, his book, but not his portrait") with his tiny, dated signature on each title page. An attractive set. Very good. Very Good.

Keywords: Elia W. Peattie; Robert Burns Peattie


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